Improved sad-iron holder



PATENT 'y OFFICE.

JOSEPH DAVIS VVESTGATE, OF SAN'FRANOISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVED SAD-IRON HOLDER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 75,61 l, dated March 17, 1868.

To @ZZ whom' t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DAvIs` WEST- GATE, of San Francisco, county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improved Sad-Iron Holder and Shield; andI do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are suflicient t-o y enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention or," improvements `without further invention or experiment.

My invention consists in providing a sad- "iro'n holder with a lining of non-conducting substances, so that the hand grasping the `holder will not be burned by the handle of the sad-iron. heat from the body of the iron to the back of u the hand and 'ling-ers, a shield is attached be- To prevent the radiation ot' the neath the holder by wires, which are bent so as to partially inclose the handle, while the i shield is below-the grasping-hand. This shield is also lined with a non-conducting substance. In order to more fully illustrate and describe i my invention, reference is had to the accombe of leather or any other suit-able material,

and copper Wire a a may be placed trans- `s versely across it to prevent the handle from coming into immediate contact with the leather. I line the pad with suitable thicknesses of cloth, (tlannel will answer very well,) and between it andthe lining I spread a coating of plaster-of-paris l), or other nony conducting substance. lOver the top of the Whole a iiannel lining O is placed which extends beyond the circumference of the pad at one side and is turned up to afford a pocket Fig. 2 is for the fingers. At the other side is attached a piece of cloth C for a thumb-holder. The edges of the pad and holders are bound with any suitable material, which serves to keep the whole together.

Below the holder is a shield B, of suitable size to enter between the posts of the sad-iron handle, and is attached to the holder at each side by copper Wires d d, curved so as to partially it around the handle at d.. The shield is curved and the upper surface lined with cloth e, and a non-conducting substance of plaster-of -paris or other suitable material placed on the shield beneath the cloth lining, where it is held by turning up the edge of the shield, which is easily performed when .thin

metal isyused for constructing the shield. By this means asimple holder and shield is had, completely protecting the hand from theV direct heat of the handle of the sad-iron as well as from the radiation ot' the heatfrom the sadn iron itself, which is ofttimes very painful.

Having thus described my invention, I am well aware that a round pad or holder with stripsvof metal attached to the face is known and in use. Itherefore do not claim, broadly, a pad or holder with metal bars across its face.

W hat I doclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A sad-iron holder constructed with pockets for the thumb and fingers and with an interlining of gypsum or other similar non-conducting substance, in combination with a shield B, having a similar interlining or covering, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

JOSEPH DAVIS WESTGA'IE.

VVitnessesz..

JNO. L. BOONE, J. R. BEUOELLS.

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